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To get the perfect consistency and flavor, use butter. No doubt It makes the best liver pate.

The basic recipe to prepare duck or chicken pate is to brown the livers in butter, deglaze with brandy, dry white wine or stock add seasonings and stir until the liquid is mostly gone. Then toss in the food processor with softened butter and season with salt.

For a variation, process with sauteed onions and mushrooms. This one keeps refrigerated 3-5 days, and the plane version lasts well covered and refrigerated for 5-8 days.

Serving suggestion: For a quick meal or snack, serve on toast or prepare a sandwich with melted Swiss or Mozzarella cheese.

The most important, the nutrition part:

So what makes liver so wonderful? Quite simply, it contains more nutrients, gram for gram, than any other food. In summary, liver provides:

An excellent source of high-quality protein
Nature’s most concentrated source of vitamin A
All the B vitamins in abundance, particularly vitamin B12
One of our best sources of folic acid
A highly usable form of iron
Trace elements such as copper, zinc and chromium; liver is our best source of copper
An unidentified anti-fatigue factor
CoQ10, a nutrient that is especially important for cardio-vascular function
A good source of purines, nitrogen-containing compounds that serve as precursors for DNA and RNA. ...From The Weston A. Price Foundation files

For more information visit: The Liver Files: Recipes and Lore About Our Most Important Sacred Food

Related post: Pet owners making own dog food!

Your Dog is Not a Vegetarian, by William Campbell Douglass II, MD

Read the complete post at LewRockwell.com

  When I first  reported on the breaking story of contamination in mass-produced  pet foods that has so far sickened and killed thousands of our beloved American pets – dog and cats, specifically – because it was, I had very little information to impart , about exactly what was causing these casualties.

But I did have some recommendations on how to safeguard your kitties and pups against  this fate: To feed them ONLY raw liver, chicken necks, hamburger,  and any other uncooked meats and animal organs. This should include at least one daily raw egg – including the shell – rounding   out their diet with cut vegetables put on top.             

This advice of mine directly contradicts not only everything you’ll hear down at your local PetSmart store (or Petco, whatever),but also what several mainstream books recently published in wide release have to say about canine and feline diets. Believe me, though – I’m right and they’re wrong.

There’s even more proof of this. More information has surfaced about exactly WHY our precious pets are dying. And as usual when it comes to nutrition – human or animal – one thing lies at the root of all the evil…

Read the complete post at LewRockwell.com

Pet owners from the U.S. and other parts of the world are living a horrendous situation IF they have been feeding U.S. made kibble and canned food to their beloved furry friends.

We are lucky to have two beautiful and healthy dogs as companions: Silky-Lu (a Weimaraner girl) and Hannibal the Cannibal (a Basset Hound boy). Since day one they entered this home they were fed raw food, including raw beef, chicken liver, chicken necks or wings, raw free range eggs with the shell, and an array of selected fresh veggies suggested by the Barf Diet and Weston A. Price Foundation nutrition guidelines. Silky and Hannibal have never being sick, ...they are two healthy beautiful specimens with bright spirits and full of energy.

As a pet owner I can just imagine the pain and despair the people and all those sweet dogs and cats are living right now. What could be worst than thinking you are providing your furry friend with a good diet, when the truth is that you have been killing them slowly, poisoning them without knowing it. If this is your case, well, blame the kibble company or the vet if you want, although I won't speculate. How about the dog breeder that sold you the puppy and didn't give you good advice on what to feed him/her, they probably didn't know any better.

The following is a comment by William C. Douglass II, MD:

With the tsunami of horrible news of the mass poisoning of our pets has come a second wave of bad advice from amateurs and nutritional experts of all varieties including veterinarians and university PhDs.

The Associated Press tells us: “But veterinarians warn that making balanced meals for pets can be complicated and should only be a temporary remedy until the scare passes.” The “scare”? Hundreds, and possibly thousands of our pets are dead or dying and yet “veterinarians” (unnamed) are calling it a “scare”? The problem is that vets have been completely taken in by the pseudo science of the pet food industry. The vets are perked and petted just like the pharmaceutical industry perks and pets the doctors of humans. There are, in both cases, reasons for going along for prestige and financial gain. “Making balanced meals” for dogs and cats is not complicated. They only need raw meat and raw animal fat – nothing else for a “balanced” diet. It’s that simple. My two cats, Paint and Pistol, never had a thing to eat but raw chicken liver during their entire lives. They were never sick. They never went to a vet.

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